The Goshawk
with a foreword by helen macdonald
$43.49
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
7 December 2015
Summary
Taming the Wild: A Memoir of Man and Hawk
With a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK.
‘No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist’s art. One is matching one’s mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage or gratitude. It is a tonic for the less forthright savagery of the human heart.’
First published in 1951, T.H.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474601665 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474601669 |
| Author: | T.H. White |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 7 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 134mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Nature writing at its very best.
The reader who cannot tell a hawk from a handsaw may be swept up by the storm of emotion which blows between the man and his bird, and by the freedom and richness of the romantic treatment of the variations - SUNDAY TIMES
This is … the best book on falconry, its feel, its emotions, and its flavour, ever writtenAbout The Author
T.H. White
T. H. White (1906-1964) was born in Bombay, India, and educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge. He was the author of twenty-six published books, but he is perhaps best known for his sequence of novels reimagining the Arthurian legend, referred to collectively as THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, the fantasy MISTRESS MASHAM’S RESPONSE and THE GOSHAWK. He died at sea on his way home from a lecture tour and is buried in Piraeus, Greece.
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